What are you reading in general?

Post by **danlo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 2:39 am

Well, since you already had my consent (even tho you failed to list the Termigan)-this commercial was brought to you by The Fen of Cadwal Waste Management Services "Taking the world's shit since time immemorium."

Post by **bloodguard bob** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 3:29 am

The Lore of Spices-Their history, nature and uses around the world by J.O. Swahn

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:04 am

The Historical Illuminatus Book 1: The Earth Will Shake by Robert Anton Wilson. My favorite bit of fiction by Wilson, as I'm trying to reread all of his books since his death in January. Rereading this book makes me realize yet again why this is my favorite of his fiction.

Post by **Tjol** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:39 am

I'm listening to Anna Karenina (unabridged) during my commute and on road trips... does that count?

Post by **Avatar** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 6:06 am

Cagliostro wrote:The Historical Illuminatus Book 1: The Earth Will Shake by Robert Anton Wilson.

I love those. Only read up to the 3rd Book Nature's God IIRC though. Not even sure howmany there are...at least one more I know.

--A

Post by **Cagliostro** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:10 pm

Avatar wrote:
Cagliostro wrote:The Historical Illuminatus Book 1: The Earth Will Shake by Robert Anton Wilson.
I love those. Only read up to the 3rd Book Nature's God IIRC though. Not even sure howmany there are...at least one more I know.

--A

Nope. He only made three. I REALLY wanted him to continue these, but on some videotape I bought of him, he plugs his books at the end of the tape, and when he announces Masks of the Illuminati, he refers to that as the 4th book of the Historical Illuminatus. Which is confusing, no?

Y'know, I just realized that I don't own Masks of the Illuminati. Maybe I should rectify that.

Post by **A Gunslinger** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:50 pm

A lot of Fantasy Football stuff!

Post by **Damelon** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:27 pm

It won't help ya, Guns!

Post by **danlo** » Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:53 pm

It's all decided by a random roll of the computer and draft position means everything!!!

Post by **Avatar** » Thu Aug 16, 2007 10:05 am

Cagliostro wrote:
Avatar wrote:
Cagliostro wrote:The Historical Illuminatus Book 1: The Earth Will Shake by Robert Anton Wilson.
I love those. Only read up to the 3rd Book Nature's God IIRC though. Not even sure howmany there are...at least one more I know.

--A
Nope. He only made three.

That's odd. I coulda sworn that in the back of the 3rd volume I read (got them from the library) that the next one was gonna be something like The World Turned Upside Down.

--A

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 2:00 pm

U-Boat Ace: The Story of Wolfgang Lüth - Jordan Vause.

Post by **Loredoctor** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 11:42 am

Broca's Brain - Dr Carl Sagan.

Post by **Tjol** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 6:02 am

80% through Ana Karenina on CD now, about halfway through 'The King of Elfland's Daughter'

Post by **Damelon** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:23 pm

Loremaster wrote:Broca's Brain - Dr Carl Sagan.

Good book!

Post by **Loredoctor** » Sat Sep 08, 2007 12:38 pm

Damelon wrote:
Loremaster wrote:Broca's Brain - Dr Carl Sagan.
Good book!

So far, it's superb.

Post by **Avatar** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 6:25 am

Reading a strange crime-fiction novel, Out by Natsuo Kirino about four female factory workers in Japan, one of who kills her husband, and the others who help her dispose of the body.

I'm 90% finished and I still don't know if I like it or not.

--A

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Sun Sep 30, 2007 10:44 pm

It's banned books week, so I'm thinking of starting The Great Gatsby.
(Shame I already read Nineteen Eighty-Four and The Satanic Verses earlier this year, heh. I might go out and buy a copy of Lolita...)

Post by **I'm Murrin** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:25 am

How to Travel with a Salmon, a collection of short humourous essays by italian author Umberto Eco. Quite funny so far--here's an excerpt from the third essay in the book, How to Eat in Flight:

As the ancient fabulists taught us, to prevent a fox from drinking out of a glass, the glass must be tall and slim. Glasses on planes are short, squat, rather basin-like. Obviously any liquid will spill, obeying the laws of physics, even when there is no turbulence. The bread is not a French baguette, which you have to tear with your teeth even when it's fresh, but rather a special friable roll which, the moment it is grasped, explodes in a cloud of fine powder. Thanks to the Lavoisier principlethis powder vanishes only in appearence: on debarking, you will find that it has all accumulated under your behind, managing to stain even the seat of your trousers. The dessert tends to the meringue genre, and its fragments mix with the bread, or else it dribbles over the fingers immediately, when the napkin is already steeped in tomato sauce and hence unusable.
True, you still have the perfumed towelette: but this cannot be distinguished from the little envelopes of salt, pepper, and sugar, and so, after you have put the sugar in the salad, the towelette has already ended up in the coffee, which is served boiling hot and in a heat conducting cup filled to the brim, so that it may readily slip from your seared fingers and blend with the gravy that has now congealed around your waist. In business class the hostess pours the coffee directly into your lap, hastily apologising in Esperanto.

Post by **sgt.null** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 11:28 am

Phil Lesh's autobiography

Post by **emotional leper** » Wed Oct 17, 2007 12:29 pm

The 1904 Army Service Manual I just inherited recently.

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

What are you reading in general?